Sentences with phrase «largest corn crop»

While 2008 had horrible floods in the midwest, we still produced the second largest corn crop on record, while using less fertilizer than previous years, due to more efficient planting and growing methods,

Not exact matches

There Friedberg observed that most farmers plant corn and soybeans because they make can make the most money through those crops, in large part because of their role as animal feed that supports humans» massive appetite for meat.

First, is the contribution in terms of price mix likely to be larger for corn or soybeans or about the same for the 2 crops in North America?

Under low prices, farmers anticipate clearing forest for cereal, corn, or khat crops, or large government - sponsored sun coffee farms, threatening habitats of all types.

As gluten allergies reach a global high caused by the biggest crop grown in the world (wheat) and GMO infestation puts a dent in the usage of the world's second crop, corn, food companies are scrambling to utilize the world's third largest crop: rice.

OMAHA, Nebraska (Reuters)- The most extensive drought in five decades has left corn plants withered and dying, and crop yields in the largest producing states will be much lower than experts have forecast, scouts said on Friday as they completed a U.S. Midwest crop tour.

Planning meetings for the Global Seed Vault in Norway spawned the idea of looking at average summer temperatures, which climate models can project relatively reliably and which have a large impact on crop yields — between 2.5 and 16 percent less wheat, corn, soy or other crops are produced for every 1.8 — degree F (1 — degree C) rise.

Even though the recent heat wave has ended, weeks of drought and days of 100 - degree temperatures have already taken a toll on this year's corn crop in a large part of the Midwestern United States.

«The large machines used to harvest row crops such as wheat, corn and soybeans provide a natural platform for improving efficiency,» said Richard Sowers, a professor of industrial and enterprise systems engineering and of mathematics at the University of Illinois.

One of the keys to making dwarf corn crops is finding a way to «feminize» the plant by removing steroids that produce large amounts of pollen.

The amount of biomass available from corn and food crops is very small; for biofuels to have a large impact, we must harness energy from nonedible plants, also known as cellulosic biomass — wood and wood waste, agricultural waste, and energy crops.

A typical corn field is some seven times larger than the home range for a female hamster, so the animals that live in these agricultural areas eat mostly corn — or whatever other crop is growing in that field.

They comprise a large percentage of commercial soy, corn, beets, and alfalfa crops in the United States.

It is Canada's fourth largest crop, after wheat, canola and corn.

Avoid eating large, concentrated quantities of the seed - based crops of the Agricultural Age, such as grains (wheat, corn, barley, oats) and legumes (soy, beans, peanuts).

But the chief beneficiary is the large corporate farm and the cartels that buy their products — chiefly cotton, corn and soy — America's three main crops, which are usually grown as monocultures on large farms, requiring extensive use of artificial fertilizers and pesticides.

(Recasts top of story with details from USDA report) By Charles Abbott WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters)-- U.S. farmers will plant a mammoth 88.8 million acres of corn — the second - largest acreage since 1946 — and a record 78.1 million acres of soybeans in response to high prices for the crops, the government said on... read more

[1] CO2 absorbs IR, is the main GHG, human emissions are increasing its concentration in the atmosphere, raising temperatures globally; the second GHG, water vapor, exists in equilibrium with water / ice, would precipitate out if not for the CO2, so acts as a feedback; since the oceans cover so much of the planet, water is a large positive feedback; melting snow and ice as the atmosphere warms decreases albedo, another positive feedback, biased toward the poles, which gives larger polar warming than the global average; decreasing the temperature gradient from the equator to the poles is reducing the driving forces for the jetstream; the jetstream's meanders are increasing in amplitude and slowing, just like the lower Missippi River where its driving gradient decreases; the larger slower meanders increase the amplitude and duration of blocking highs, increasing drought and extreme temperatures — and 30,000 + Europeans and 5,000 plus Russians die, and the US corn crop, Russian wheat crop, and Aussie wildland fire protection fails — or extreme rainfall floods the US, France, Pakistan, Thailand (driving up prices for disk drives — hows that for unexpected adverse impacts from AGW?)

Severe drought is currently scorching nearly 40 % of the continental United States, the largest stretch of country this dry in nearly a half - century, affecting 88 % of the nation's corn crop.

DES MOINES (AP)-- Warmer and wetter weather in large swaths of the country have helped farmers grow corn, soybeans and other crops in some regions that only a few decades ago were too dry or cold, experts who are studying the change said... The change is due in part to a 7 % increase in average U.S. rainfall in the past 50 years, said Jay Lawrimore, chief of climatic analysis for the Asheville, N.C. - based National Climactic Data Center... Brad Rippey, a U.S. Department of Agriculture meteorologist, said warming temperatures have made a big difference for crops such as corn and soybeans... For example, data from the National Agricultural Statistics Service show that in 1980, about 210,000 soybean acres were planted in North Dakota.

A large proportion of agricultural - related N2O emissions in the U.S. are from corn crops grown in the 12 - state North Central Region (NCR), which is made up of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin.

Increased weed and pest pressure associated with longer growing seasons and warmer winters will be an increasingly important challenge; there are already examples of earlier arrival and increased populations of some insect pests such as corn earworm.64 Furthermore, many of the most aggressive weeds, such as kudzu, benefit more than crop plants from higher atmospheric carbon dioxide, and become more resistant to herbicide control.72 Many weeds respond better than most cash crops to increasing carbon dioxide concentrations, particularly «invasive» weeds with the so - called C3 photosynthetic pathway, and with rapid and expansive growth patterns, including large allocations of below - ground biomass, such as roots.73 Research also suggests that glyphosate (for example, Roundup), the most widely - used herbicide in the United States, loses its efficacy on weeds grown at the increased carbon dioxide levels likely to occur in the coming decades.74 To date, all weed / crop competition studies where the photosynthetic pathway is the same for both species favor weed growth over crop growth as carbon dioxide is increased.72

Current research suggests that the lion's share of these emissions come from just a few countries (mostly China, India, the U.S. and parts of Western Europe) and from just a few large commodity crops (including corn, wheat, rice and a few others).

Since the US remains the largest worldwide producer of corn, it only makes sense that this domestic crop would be turned into an alternative fuel.

Harvest shortfalls in both U.S. corn, which is by far the world's largest crop, and wheat from the Black Sea region, which in a good year looms large among world exports, mean trouble.

be more than twice as large as the average - sized annual corn crop in the decade of the 1980s (7.15 billion bushels on average).

This year American farmers will dedicate about a third of the U.S. corn crop — the largest in the world — to ethanol.

That is more than the second largest use of corn, as feed for cattle, pigs and chickens, which consumes 36 percent of the annual corn crop.

Yet, the 2010 corn crop was 40 % larger than the 1985 crop!

The team measured the fluorescence from large areas of crops in the Midwestern Corn Belt and the Indo - Gangetic Plain.

The first large - scale commercial operation to produce cellulosic ethanol (the kind of ethanol made not from corn or other grown crops, but from organic waste) in the US just got major backing from the oil industry, and will be online in 2013.

(Note that the study did not look at first generation biofuels made from tropical crops like sugarcane or sweet sorghum which reduce emissions far more than corn ethanol; for sugarcane ethanol, the reduction is as large as that of cellulosic biofuels, earlier post.)

Biofuels also are contributing to the hikes but mainly because the EU and the United States are subsidizing domestic production of crops like corn that offer low efficiency when turned into fuel and compete with other foodstuffs for large swathes of land in these already densely populated areas, Clini said.